Music Review: ‘The Capeman’ Revisited, Far From Broadway Lights

In the new abridged format of Paul Simon's “Songs From the Capeman,” which opened on Tuesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the songs are presented more or less in oratorio form, cut free from the obligation to be theatrical.

Music Review: With Orchestral Offering, Festival Passes a Milestone

The MATA Festival is celebrating its 10th season, partly by showing off how far it has come since its early days as Music at the Anthology, a new-music series resident at the Anthology Film Archives.

Music Review: Composing on the Spot, With Help From a Master

Lee Konitz is a certifiable jazz legend, with peerless high-modernist credentials and an integrity equal to his talent.

Music Review: An Ensemble Finds Unity With a Seasoned Soprano

If there is such a thing as a typical French composer, it might be Ernest Chausson, whose “Poem of Love and of the Sea” was sung by Felicity Lott at Tuesday’s concert of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Jay-Z and Live Nation Alliance as New Model for Music Sales

Superstar rapper Jay-Z is on the verge of closing a $150 million deal with with the concert giant Live Nation that rivals the biggest music contracts ever awarded.

Jerry Kravat, Musician and Manager, Dies at 72

Mr. Kravat was a leading New York City nightclub and concert booker, bandleader and producer who was the longtime personal manager of the singer Barbara Cook.

Music Review: Ms. Jones and Guitar in the Spirit of the Place

In addition to commemorating the first decade of the Living Room, a club beloved by many, Monday evening cast warm light on the close-knit family of folk singers that still counts Norah Jones as one of its own.

Music Review: Bulletproof, Yet Decidedly Vulnerable

Stephen Malkmus specializes in extremely well-written rock songs, full of clever wordplay, that somehow manage to suggest shamble and accident.

Music Review: Presidents and First Ladies in a Campaign to Rescue a Broadway Flop

On Monday, the Collegiate Chorale contributed to the Bernstein year by presenting the New York premiere of “A White House Cantata.”

Music Review: Answering Bach’s Call With Color and Stamina

Xiayin Wang’s recital at Zankel Hall on Monday night offered plenty of evidence for her success.

Music Review: Thunder Out of Russia, Courtesy of Both Orchestra and Pianist

Although it is not the oldest Russian orchestra now active, the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia is certainly among the more venerable.

Music Review: 4 Percussionists This Time, Not 77, but Still an Earful

The Boredoms' show on Sunday night was enveloping and ecstatic (and percussive).

Music Review: The Polish of a Trained Voice, the Passion of a Folk Singer

On Sunday Kate Royal devoted much of her program at the Frick Collection — her first recital there — to showing how ravishing repertory that skirts the borders of the mainstream can sound.

Music Review: Beethoven With Period Flavor and a Steely Edge

On Sunday Thomas Dausgaard and his 37-member band offered a sample of what most of us have been missing with an all-Beethoven program at the Rose Theater.

Music Review | Met Chamber Ensemble: On a Crowded Stage, Works Bursting With Cheer

Different in their methods and their messages, Mozart and Gunther Schuller had at least one thing in common on Sunday afternoon: a desire to please.

A Women’s Mariachi Band Sings Its Way Through Traditional Male Turf

Mariachi bands have commonly featured women as singers, but all-female ensembles like Reyna de Los Angeles, which is featured in the documentary "Compañeras," have been rare.

Bernstein’s Singing Presidents: A Recount

It has taken more than three decades to gain a second hearing of “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” which Leonard Bernstein wrote with the lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.

Music Review | Pocket Concertos: Reaching the Final Turn in 3 Years of Bumpy Road

Even by the adventurous standards of the Miller Theater, the Pocket Concertos series that it started in 2006 came with built-in land mines.

Music Review | Ornette Coleman: Clear-Cut Case of the Blues, in a Bebop Mode

Time and again at Town Hall Ornette Coleman tacked toward the blues.

Music Review | 'La Bohème': Zeffirelli’s ‘Bohème’ for the 347th Time

Franco Zeffirelli’s “Bohème” has had more performances than any other production in the Met’s history, and the Met used the occasion to pay tribute to Mr. Zeffirelli.